Can I use my iPod to copy files from one PC to another?

I recently bought a Mac Powerbook and an iPod, and want to move all my personal stuff off my work laptop (an IBM ThinkPad) onto the Powerbook. Most of my files are photos, Word documents, excel files; only a few are music files.
When I bought the Powerbook, the guy in the Apple shop said I could use my iPod like a hard disk to copy all the stuff over - using a flash drive would take forever!
Was he right? If so, how do I do this? I can't seem to get past the fact that my iPod is now Mac formatted, which my IBM Thinkpad doesn't seem to like!
MacBook Pro 2,1 Mac OS X (10.2.x) i-Pod model MA446ZP

How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer using iTunes7
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer using iTunes6
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304304
Instructions above give the basic steps to use your iPod in disk mode so you can copy other stuff besides the itunes library.
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